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Author_Martin Wallen
Bad Host
Brown's Doctrine
Brown's System
Brown’s Doctrine
Brown’s System
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Coleridgean Sense
cultural history of disease
doctrine
Double Allusion
Elementa Medicinae
Eolian Harp
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Ethical Interiority
Freedom Essay
Healthy Reader
Lady Beaumont
Medical Doctrine
medical humanities
Medullary Substance
Mimetic Poets
Moral Judge
nineteenth-century medicine
Pathological Threats
philosophical anthropology
poetic individuality
romantic medical theory
romanticism health disease discourse
Schelling's Text
Schelling’s Text
Silent Dialogue
Silent Realm
Singing School
Socratic City
Spiritous Liquors
Thomas Beddoes
Verse Letter
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138277625
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Romantic Era witnessed a series of conflicts concerning definitions of health and disease. In this book, Martin Wallen discusses those conflicts and the cultural values that drove them. The six chapters progress from the mainstream rejuvenation of the Socratic values by Wordsworth and Coleridge to the radical alternatives offered by the Scottish theorist, John Brown, and the speculative German philosopher, F. W. J. Schelling. Wallen shows how actual definitions of health and disease changed at the turn of the nineteenth century, and provides an analysis of the metaphorical uses to which romantic thinkers put these different definitions in their attempts to value or devalue competing concepts of individuality, poetic expression, and history. Key to the redefinition of these concepts was the use of the rhetoric of medicine to add value to those statements considered desirable and to undermine those targeted for elimination from public discourse. By juxtaposing the well-known critical works of Wordsworth and Coleridge with lesser-known works such as Schelling's Yearbooks of Medicine and Thomas Beddoes' medical treatises, Wallen illuminates the central role medicine played in redefining the human being's relationship to society and nature - part of the cultural revolution that began in the nineteenth century.
Martin Wallen is Associate Professor in the English Department at Oklahoma State University, USA.
